Shea Weber isn’t going to play for the Vancouver Canucks

How much?

Headline: Like a roundhouse punch to the eye to Canucks fans, Shea Weber is no closer to being a Vancouver Canuck and it appears he never will be.

Late last night while I was watching Eat St. @DarrenDreger stress tested Twitter with news that the Flyers had signed all-star defenseman Shea Weber to a 14 year, $110 million dollar offer sheet.

I’m glad the kids were a sleep otherwise they would have heard the old man drop quite a few expletives.

The reaction

Remember when Justin Schultz chose Edmonton over Vancouver?

That’s what Weber signing with the Flyers is sort of reminding me of, but rather than the player taking the heat on this, it’s Vancouver GM Mike Gillis.

My twitter feed was full of people wondering where Gillis was or why he wasn’t in the mix submitting his own offer sheet to Weber. Probably still fishing, or self-imposed fishing trip trades freeze, not much has surfaced in terms of what Gillis or the Canucks had planned.

Between the lines

Earlier in the off-season, Gillis made a reference about next years’ class of unrestricted free agents.

If Vancouver was involved for Weber was the price to high?

Like many other Vancouver fans I assumed he was talking about Weber and the likelihood of him going to July 1st in 2013.

However, it doesn’t appear that is going to be happening anymore.

Hitting the snooze button?

It’s also been reported that Nashville had been trying to work out a trade for Weber, avoiding a lengthy and expensive offer sheet and sending him off for a much greater package than the four first round picks they would receive should they decide not match.

Darren Dreger of TSN mentioned there were four teams really in on trade talks for Weber.

San Jose, Philadelphia, the Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings were involved in trade talks with the Predators.

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